Statistical Storytelling Revisited
Since its emergence in the 19th century, the continuous publication of results has been an important activity of official statistics. This publication activity, as well as its conditions, objectives...
View ArticleHello browser
Another reason why the browser will survive the social-media driven advance of apps (be it iPad’s or facebook’s) is its evolution. One of these evolutionary paths is the new browser standard HTML5 ....
View ArticleHoliday Reading
If you’ll find some time over the next few weeks to look at some interesting webpages here a hint showing new developments in browser technology: http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ To see this you have...
View ArticleTimelines: past and future
Future In the past nobody was perfectly right in predicting the future of (communication) technologies. This does not prevent from crystal ball gazing. It’s always exciting! And so Envisioning...
View ArticleBetter Life Index
Housing, income, jobs, community,education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety,work-life balance – these are the indicators proposed in OECD’s Better Life Index . In a...
View ArticleJavascript and SVG: Back to the Future
Happy New Year! One of the things I am looking forward to in 2012 is yet more improvements in the no-longer-humble web browser. The move towards ‘web apps’ has made browser manufacturers focus on the...
View ArticleReality?
There are not only interactive graphs, but also interactive ads using facebook. And you may start doubting. …. What is real? Look at this
View ArticleFlash, SVG and a stunning timeline
A timeline is a perfect tool for visualising complex information … and is sometimes quite complex itself. This example from evolutionoftheweb gives both. And it shows interesting details like the...
View ArticleEnd of the Web
DAVID GELERNTER (lifestreams.com) wrote an article in Wired 02.01.13 with a very definitive title: The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It ‘ … today, the most important function of the...
View ArticleTim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web’s 29th birthday
Just two quoted sentences as a suggestion to read the whole story here: ‘The divide between people who have internet access and those who do not is deepening existing inequalities — inequalities that...
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